Sorry -- mistake in my last post, it should be Numbers 31.
Exodus 32:26-8 is an even more horrendous text. The Levites are told to slay worshippers of the Golden Calf: “Go back and forth through th
The approval of torture is not found in the parable itself but in the comment ascribed to Jesus.
The great commandment combines two quotes from Torah.
For benightedness read Exodus 31 and 1 Samuel
Mark 1:40-45
We have two law-breakers here: The man with leprosy, and Jesus.
The man was forbidden to approach “clean” people. (Presumably he could approach others with the same condition.) And Je
The healing of the leper
Mark 1:40-45
Jesus told the leper, ‘Mind you say nothing to anyone.’
We live in a world of public stories
We hear tales and get impressions of what goes on
We form opi
Joe @28 yes there is nothing explicit about capital punishment or slavery but the great commandment takes all of this and more in its grand sweep.
'Benighted' is a word I would be slow to use about
Parables illustrate a teaching.The non negotiable mandate to forgive is the point of Matthew's story of the unforgiving servant. It is not a lesson in how to sock it to those who have provoked us. The
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Note the exasperation of Fr Patrick Banville of St Senan's, Enniscorthy, ov
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